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Phytochemical Analysis—An Introduction
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
Some General Principles of Phytochemical Analysis
Extraction, Isolation, and Identification of Some Phytochemical Classes
INTRODUCTION
Recent global acceptance and renewed interest toward plant-derived drugs, nutraceuticals, and other natural products, has generated a lot of commercial as well as research activity in phytochemistry. Earliest drug discoveries made possible by random sampling of higher plants, used simpler operations for the separation, purification, and identification of phytoconstituents. Further, research developments with the introduction of chromatographic, spectroscopic, and high throughput ...
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